For three hours on the morning of July 4, presumably to keep things safe for a controversial visiting president, Charlottesville has been declared part of a no-flight zone. A pilots association has the details on the 8:55am-to-11:55 ban on flying stretching 10 nautical miles around Monticello. Scheduled commercial passenger and cargo traffic is exempt.
Sun shines on Cav victory
Early UVA turnovers led to a pair of field goals by visiting, Tech-beating East Carolina before today’s football game got dominated by the Cavaliers. At one point, the Pirates, with 20 points, got within 8; but that was before the coolest play of the day, a fake field goal in which backup Cav QB Scott Deke found John Phillips all alone (and possibly laughing) in the end zone. Final score: 35-20 Cavs. (0)
Murder suspect picks up another charge
Alvin Lee “Butch” Morris was in court again this morning, adding a murder-during-the-course-of-a-robbery charge to the three other felonies he faces in the 1988 slaying of Roger Shifflett, the Daily Progress reports. Morris, shown here at an earlier court date, is pictured with Shifflett’s widow, Barbara, whom he married shortly after Roger Shifflett was shot execution style at the Southwind Gas and Grocery on Route 20 south. (0)
Spacek joins Film Fest line-up
PUBLICITY PHOTO Food Lion celebrates today
The changes at Food Lions throughout Charlottesville have been happening for months, but today’s the official unveiling of the new and improved stores, which now boast expanded organic foods and wine sections, more fresh meats and seafood, and spruced up interiors. Each of the six local stores will be celebrating with various giveaways and door prizes. What remains to be seen: if the newly upscale Food Lion still has the lowest prices. (5)
Dog wash on the move
Lorri Parrott, the Ruckersville-based owner/operator of Waggin Tails, hoists Bailey after scrubbing the pooch in her large mobile dog-washing trailer downtown yesterday. Dog washing appears to be a burgeoning business. (0)
The telltale mark of a tyrant: he’s scared of his own people.
Yeah. That must be it. Just because you don’t agree with a president doesn’t make him a tyrant. It would take Dave Norris-level arrogance to truly believe that.
The Patriot Act, Gitmo and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dead innocents alone put Lord W. Bunnypants into the tyrant class.
I don’t just disagree with Bush. I despise him and his pals the Clintons. Pull your head head out of your butt and take a gander at reality.
What president doesn’t have that level of security? Sarkozy? Doubtful. Ahmadinejad? He’d already be dead. Kennedy? Whoops. The best presidents have lunatics (governments?) after them. I can hardly defend Bush for much of anything in his second term, but I’m not rooting for him to get gunned down in this fine town either. And correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m guessing you don’t want Cheney running the country for 7 months either.
If you were joking, and I suspect there’s a good chance of that, my apologies. But not everyone who thinks differently than you has his head up his butt.
“Just because you don’t agree with a president doesn’t make him a tyrant.”
This is the head-up-the-butt statement. Bush will go down in history as a tyrannical figure.
Bush is indeed a tyrant.
I forgot because you said it it was true. My mistake. I will kindly leave you to chest bump all your friends and tell them you were right all along. Enjoy it.
You forgot to take your bawl, Jim.
It has nothing to do with President Bush. The same type of restrictions surround a UVa football game (or any Div I game). Also, NASCAR has similar TFR’s in place. Not as “stringent” as a Presidential TFR, but they are in place every weekend around the Country.
How about when they shut Monticello down when a FORMER Iranian President showed up for a tour. There was no TFR, but it was closed to the public.
in all those arguments for Bush being a tyrant i didn’t once see congress mentioned…. now if i’m not mistaken, and i’m pretty sure i was taught right, congress would be involved in any majore descision the Unites States as a whole makes, i.e. WAR, LAWS, and DISASTER RELIEF. maybe it’s about time to due away with that whole “democracy” thing start something new…. i vote for Jamie D.